Letter Length Please, dear Editor, have mercy on us readers. Please, please reinstate your limit on word length for letters to the editor. In the 09-27-2017 edition of the Mason County News, Dr. Christopher Keating responded to Kendal Hemphill’s Outdoors Outpost column of 09-20-2017. The original column and the rebuttal letter were on the subject of climate change. So as not to have to count words, I measured the length of the Hemphill column at 25 1/8” and the Keating letter at 36 ...